<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">hi, first post to this forum, after switching from BBEdit to TextMate.<div>while I'm discovering everyday the benefit of this change, I came across a syntax problem with a Applescript I was using successfully with BBEdit.</div><div> </div><div>the principle of the script was to create folders and sub-folders, then create a new document in one of them with my text editor, save it with a title, bringing it to the front for entry.</div><div>changing the app to TextMate, I get an error: </div><div>[quote] AppleEvent Handler failed: expect end of line but get "to" [/quote]</div><div> </div><div>I have posted an entry on MacScripter, to hear that TextMate was "poorly scriptable, even Standard Suite is badly implemented".</div><div>any solution to contradict that?!</div><div>below the script in question:</div><div> </div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 41.6px; text-indent: -41.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; "><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 41.6px; text-indent: -41.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; ">set theFolder to choose folder with prompt "Create/Choose Client Project folder"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 41.6px; text-indent: -41.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; ">try</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 83.2px; text-indent: -83.2px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; "> set briefFolder to ((theFolder as text) & "Brief") as alias</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 41.6px; text-indent: -41.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; ">on error</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 83.2px; text-indent: -83.2px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; "> tell application "Finder" to set briefFolder to make new folder at theFolder with properties {name:"Brief"}</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 41.6px; text-indent: -41.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; ">end try</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 41.6px; text-indent: -41.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; ">tell application "Finder"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 83.2px; text-indent: -83.2px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; "> set capturesFolder to make new folder at theFolder with properties {name:"Captures"}</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 41.6px; text-indent: -41.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; ">end tell</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 41.6px; text-indent: -41.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; ">tell application "TextMate" -- was BBEdit</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 83.2px; text-indent: -83.2px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; "> set briefDoc to make new document at beginning with properties {name:"$.tasks"} -- was "$.todo"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 83.2px; text-indent: -83.2px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; "> save briefDoc to ((briefFolder as text) & "$.tasks")</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 41.6px; text-indent: -41.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; ">end tell</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 41.6px; text-indent: -41.7px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">tell application "TextMate" to activate -- was BBEdit</div></blockquote></div></div><div> <div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--</div><div><div>cheers, Pascal</div></div><div> </div></div> </div> </div></body></html>